Washing machine



June 7, 1927.

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a lication filed September 17, 1925. Serial m. 58,883.

This invention relates to a clothes washing machine and an object is to provide a machine whereby the clothes will be washed by the gentle dropping thereof from one shelf in the clothes cylinder into an adjacent shelf, and then on to the bottom of the cylinder, and thereafter picked up by shelves and again subjected to such dropping and in which the clothes while so dropped will be subjected to a forcible stream of air and wawith the result that the finest fabrics may be thoroughly Washed without injury thereto and in an expeditious manner.

Another object is the provision in a washing machine of a combined air and water circulating pump, for forcibly ejecting the fluid against clothes which are arranged in a slowly revolving cylinder, the latter having therein spaced angled shelves.

A further object is to provide a washing machine, with compartments in which the wash and rinse water may be stored while not in use, such water being readily available when needed.

A still further object is to provide a washing machine embodying the above mentioned objects, which is simple in construction, in-

. thus f0 vertical wall expensive to manufacture, and eflicient in operation.-

Other objects, advantages, and features of invention may appear from the accompany- .ing drawing the subjoined detailed description and the appended claims.

In the drawings illustrating my invention. Fig. 1 is a. longitudinal sectional View of my washing machin a FFig. 2 is 'a sectional view on line 2-2 ig. 1. i Fig. 3 is a seetional view on line 33 Fig. 1.

' ig. 4. is a sectional view on line 4-.-4

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ig. 5. is a fragmentary end view of one of the manual control valves.

Beferri ore particularly to the-drawing, my w g machine comprises ahousing 10, substantially rectangular'in form, and having a front wall 1-1, and arear wall 12. The housing 10 is an ported on wheeled legs 13. A vertical wal 14 extends transverselythrough the housing and rises from the bottom thereof to a horizontalshelf 15, a pump compartment 16. A 17 from the, shelf 15 to the top of the housing 10 and forms the journaled in the motor compartment 18. A horizontal wall 19 1s spaced from the bottom of the housing, and in conjunction with the walls 14,, 17 and the sides of the housing forms the washing compartment 20.

A vertical partition 21 rises from the floor of the housing to the wall 19and forms the tanks 22and 23, the purpose of which will be further described. r j v Arranged centrally on-the face of the wall 14 within the compartment 20 there is a conduit 24.

A hollow clothes washing cylinder 25 is revolvably mounted in the compartment 20,

and is formed with a hollow axial hub 26, wh1ch extends into the conduit 24, and is walls thereof. From the other side of the c linder a pintle 27 extends which is journale in the rear wall 12. The cylinder is provided with a door 28, to give access to the interior thereof Secured or formed in the inner periphery of the c linder, there are equidistantly spaced angu arly disposed shelves 29, preferably four in number. As shown in Fig. 3, the shelves are substantially V shaped in cross section, and the pointed ends thereof are directed in a line approximatel normal to the adjacent shelf. The outer en s of the shelves may be corrugated as at 30 which tends to retard thev movement of the clothes in leaving the shelf and also tumbles said clothes as they drop. Holes 31 are provided in the wall of the cylinder 25 toprovide egress for the water.

A. cylindrical water and air pump 32 is revolvably mounted in the com artment 16,

. and is secured to a shaft 33 w 'ch is journaled in the wall 11 and in the wall of the conduit 24; A hollow hub 34 surrounds'the shaft- 33 and protrudes from the side of the pup: '32 into the conduit 24:- and is journa e in-the wall 14. This hub also com- 7 municates with the center of .the pump as will be further described. The pump 32 is formed with two spiral passages 35, 36 which extend from diametrically opposed ripheral intake ports 37, 38 ive y, and both p terminate at t e center'and communicate with the half An electric motor 39 is mounted on the; shelf 15. A gear 40 is securedjo the shaft of the motor, and meshes with a gear 41 secured to a horizontal shaft 42, which shaft is journaled in the walls 11 and 17, A vertical shaft 43 extends thev top of the extends from the pipe65 to the tank 23, and

washing machine and is driven by gearing 44 from the shaft 42. Suitable gearing 45 on the shaft 43 drives a Wringer 46. The

wringer and gear drive therefor is of well known construction and need not be described in detail.

A gear 47 on the shaft 42 meshes with an 'idler gear 48 and the idler gear meshes with a gear 49 secured to the shaft 33 thereby rotating-said shaft and pump 32.

A spur gear 50 is secured to the inner end of the shaft 33 which meshes with a ring gear 51 secured to the side of the cylinder 25. The ring gear 51 is concentric with the axis of rotation of the cylinder 25. The ratio of the gears 50, 51 is such that the cylinder 25 is slowly rotated inone direction about 8 or 10 revolutions per minute more or less.

A throw-out clutch 52 is provided for the cylinder 25, which comprises a handle 53 pivoted to'abracket 54, and formed with a forked end which engages the grooved'end 55 of the pintle 27. Thus the cylinder may be shifted on its bearings to disengage the gears 50, 51. 4

A hand operated valve 56 is positioned in the conduit 24 between the hubs 26, 34, and

is adapted to close said conduit. A-stem 57 extends from the valve 56 through the outer wall of the housing 10, and a handle 58 on the outer end of the stem provides means to operate the valve.

A- pi e 59 extends from the compartment 20 to t e pump compartment 16, and provides a return flow means for the water from. the compartment 20 -to the compartment 16. A hand control valve 60 is mounted in said pipe. The control for the-valve is shown in Fig. 5 and consists of a stem 61 protruding through the side Wall of the housing 10, and operable by a handle 62.

The .valves in each of pipes hereinafter de-- scribed'are identical with the valve 60 and a detailed description of each one will not be given.

A pipe 63 extends from the bottom of the conduit 24 into the tank 22, and a hand controlled valve 64 is positioned therein. A drain pipe 65.extends from the pipe 63 to the outside of the washing machine and a valve 66 is provided therein. A pipe 67 through the hub 26 into thecylinder 25 and.

against the clothes therein. The water is returned to the compartment 16 through the pipe 59.

The slow rotation of the cylinder 25 causes the clothes to tumble from shelf to shelf thus presenting all sides thereoftothe stream of air and water. Rinse or blueing Water may beretained in the tank 23,,

and by closing valve 56 opening valve 64 and operating the pump, the wash water is forced into tank 22. Then 0 ening valve 74, will drain the rinse water rom tank 23 into compartment 16, where it is forced through the clothes as previously described. The rinse water is returned to tank 23 by closing valve 56, opening 68, and operating thifipump 32. Y I

aving described the invention I claim: 1.- In a washing machine, a clothes receiv ing cylinder comprising V shaped shelves therein, said shelves having corrugations thereon and each shelf having'its outer and pointed end disposed normal to the adjacent shelf, means for slowly revolving the cylinder to permit the clothestodrop from one shelf onto the adjacent shelf and from the latter onto the bottom of the cylinder and means for injecting a washing fluid throu h thecenter of the cylinder and against t e clothes in said cylinder.

2. In a washing machine a clothes receiving cylinder, a plurality of shelves in said cylinder, each shelf being disposed normal to the adjacent shelf, a pump adapted to pump both air and water partly submerged in a fluid, a pipe extending between the outlet of the pump and the center axis of the cylinder and discharging into the latter,

means adapted to rapidly revolve the pump to cause a mixture of air and water to be forcibly delivered into the center of the cylinder, and means for slowly revolving the cylinder to permit the clothes in the cylinder to be lifted by the shelves and precipitated from one shelf to the other and to be contacted by the fluid during such precipitation.

3. In a washing machine, comprising a housing having a pump compartment, a washing compartment, and a pair of tanks below said washing compartment, a conduit joining said pump and washing compart-' ment, a valve in said conduit, a pump in said pump compartment being partly immersed in the fluid in said compartment and being adapted to purnp both air and fluid,

a washing 0 linder in said washing compartment, said washing cylinder having an menace t 3 opening into one end of said conduit and a valve in each of the branches of said pipe, said pump exhausting into the other end of a drain pi extending from each of said said conduit, means to rotate said pump and tanks to t e pump compartment and a washing cylinder, adrain pipe extendin valve in each of said last named pipes.

5 from said washing compartment to sai In testimony whereof I this day set my pum compartment, a branch pipe exte'ndhand. mg rom said conduit to each of said WILLIAM C. HASHA. 

